New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1917, Page 5

SWISS FEAR SANE_ FATE AS BELGIANS President Appeals to U. S. Not to Permit Starvation Berne, Switzerland, May 3.—There 8 growing fear in Switzerland that the United States may restrict ex- gorts to neutral countries, und Ed- mund Schulthess, president of the . federation, has given The . Associated Press a comprehensivc statement of e situation. The president made a warm appeal to President ‘Wilson and the American pcople not to allow a small, sister republic to meet the tragiclfate of starvation, which would be her inevitable lot if her imports were reduced, and clearly ‘outlined Switzerland’s utter dependence on Bot only America but both groups of European combatants. President Schulthess likewise point- ed out just what supplies were need- ed from the United States, but denied categorically that any portion of such supplies went to the Central JPowers. He explained the measures ‘taken to control imports and prevent ‘hclr being sent out of Switzerland. ‘Situated as we are in the heart of Europe and bounded on thé north and east by the Central Powers, and ‘on the south and west by the Entente” said he, “Switzerland is dependent on Both belligerents. Our land does not produce rufficient food, and particu- Isrly lacks grain and fats which must . he supplied by important. . Switser- land hzs no raw materials such as coal, metals, oils To offset this she has a highly developed industry *“Prior to the outbreak of the world . war Switzerland imported .from all four sides whatever she lacked, and similarly her dxports went to all four ouarters of the globe. You can' im- agine, therefore, how hard our little T —————— REEUMATICS NO LONGER GLOOMY They have used “Neutrone Pre- seription 99" and found it there with the punch t kills Rheumatism. Only the skeptical now suffer. The victims of Rheumatism ‘all tell the same story, they have sore, inflamed. museles and stiff joints, they have no ambition or strength and get nervous, cross and frritable, which s not to be wondered at. . Thousands of old time Rheéu Hes jfl ‘now in the best of health aftér using’ “Netitroné' Pre-, scription 99", B Its satisfied users are its best ad- yertisers, pretty good advertisers, too. ! No matter how little or how much : you miffer go and get a bottle of “Neu- - trone Prescription 99”. You will be surprised at the results. Those sore, inflamed joints and burning, aching muscles will disappear, and you will | feel fine every hour of the day. Mail ordeérs filled 'on $1.00 size. Seltser Drug. Co., and druggists everywhere. \ e s e e e e} FOR THE FINER POINTS IN MEN’S DRESS Wilson's land is hit commercially when sur- rounded by the fighting world powers. A hasty arrangement was consequent- ly necessary, which may be summar- ized as follows: Switzerland used to buy principally in America, partially also in France and Italy, its most im- portant foodstuffs—grains and fats, in addition to industrial material, such as cotton, wool all metals, with the exception if iron, and finally pe- troleum, benzine, vitrol and other like commodities. All the wares drawn from America came by way of French | J Importing mnoo Tons of Conl Daily. “Other commodities Switzerland has been obliged during the war to draw fiom the Central Powers, especially from Germany, primarily coal, iron, and agricultural auxiliary supplies, such- as potash and other fertilizers, sugar and potatoes. Our coal im- ports ‘alone approximate 10,000 tons daily.' Our circumstances are. such that neither of the two warring groups can take the place of the other in supplying our necessaries- Germeapny and Austria can give us no grains or fats, whereas France and Italy can furnish no considerable quality of coal or fron. This fact is recognized by both the Entente and Ceéntral Pow- ers. Thus the economic dependence of Switzerland rests on both groups of belligerents. “We are under necessity, merely be- ' cause of the urgency of importing, of maintaining commercial relations with hoth sides, and therefore of remain- This fact of ing economically neutral. is the key to ap understanding our difficultfes.” Asked why the export of many ar- ticles from America to Switzerland, es- ‘ptell,lly grain, had increased during he war, President Schulthess said: ‘Before the war, Switzerland imbort ed 350,000 tons of grain from Russia. This importation has been complete- 1y stopped by the closing of the Dar- | danelles. The same is true for Ru- ‘mania. Switzerland therefore is com- pelled to procure her entire grain supplies from America and Argentina today. We actually can exist only by the help of shipments that come from the United States and Argen- | tina. For us it is nothing less than a question of existence or non-exist- ence. Were America to restrict or stop the exportation of grain to Switzerland, our position would be critical. Without exaggeration, the danger of starvation would then be at hand. Concerning reports that foodstuffs sent from the United States merely passed through Switzerland to the Central Powers the president sald: “I am glad to have the opportunity to explode this fairy tale. Our im- ports of foodstuffs since the begin- ning of the war are not larger, but smaller than before, and as our: pop- | ulatiofl has not decreased, it is sim- ply a question of arithmetic to show that siuch rumors are in_ the realm of fable. | “I can give you the positive dee. ! laration, which no ope can deny, that all the grain imported into this coun- ‘has remained here. I will go turther and ssy that the mo?elt Amunl of, we produce ourselves is not WW Cpotéy 18 & mme= ter of necessity,;in addition to which we gave our word to France when that country permitted the trn_nspor- tion of gram across its domains.” | ——————————— State of Ohlo, City of Toledo, Lucas County, ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he sxtoer of the fm of, . 5 leading |. I's Catarrh a\ly nnd .acts throu, Surfaces or m!lmanhll. free. CHENEY Hold In‘ all Dru, Hall's Family is taken intern- the Biood on the the Bystem. Send ‘& CO., Toledo, O. , T5¢. Is for ccaiipation. ‘NEW ‘Bafimn 'DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1017 LIEUT. THOMAS OF VACUUM GUN CREW LIEUT. C.C. THOMAS Lieutenant Clarence . C. Thomas, United States navy, commanded the naval gun crew on the tank steamship Vacuum, which was sunk by a Qer- man submarine. He and some of his men were reported lost. Lieutenant Thémas was formerly attached to the battleship Florida. BAKERS' STRIKE END§ Agreement Reached by Employers and Union Leaders Expected to Be Rat- ified by Workers Who Quit. Chicago, May 3.—The 2,000 bakers who have been on strike since last Saturday prepared -to resume work early tomorrow, an agreement for a settlement - having been reached last night by representatives of the bakers and the employes at a conference at the office of the United States dllu'lct attorney. The agreement is binding on em- ployers but it must be ratified by the men on strike before it becomes effec- tive. A ratification meeting has been called for today. It:is said there is little doubt but that the strikers will ratify the agreement and return to ‘work. The bread situation, even with the brea.d makers’ strike practically set- £16d, * 1s; howevér, ‘mot completely cleared up. More than 250 bread wa- gon drivers, who struck May 1 for in- creased wages, are still out and a con- ference will be held today between employers and emploves in the hope of reaching a basis of settlement. PREPAREDNESS OF OLLEGE MEN Durham, N. H., May 3.—A canvass of New Hampshire college alumni, completed by college officials for the Intercollegiate Intelligence bureau in an effort to find out what college grad- uates can do to help in the war, shows that 129 are engaged as farmers. Of the others, 166 are employed in en- gineering, building and draughting, 133 in the professions and 52 in busi- ness. Seventy-three have done some military work since leaving college and 431 had two years’ military train- ing while here. Make ypfi praise the cook The exclusive features of a MAGEE RANGE make it a dependable baker. The oven is heated on five sides—evenly and quickly— glass oven door, ‘cooking always simple damper, in sight — efi'ecuve. Grates that xery keepthefiredaymdmght,md saveonthe coal bill. 132 Main Street ROOT UNOVED BY | SOGIALIST GRITICS Maintains Silence Regarding 0b- jections to His Mission to Russia New York, May 3.—Elihu Root, who has been chosen to head the | proposed American commission to Russia, maintained silence yesterday in the face of adverse criticism which | his selection has aroused among i’ socialists here and the warnings that has presence might defeat the aims of \the commission. Mr. Root said he \hld read the address of Professor Alexander \Petrunkevitch of Yale at the Economic club dinner here Tues- day night, in which the Professor urged his audience. to bring pressure to bear on President Wilson to ap- point men on the commission who would be acceptable to the ~ social democrats, now in power in Russia, but on the address Mr. Root decllned to comment. The rest of the commission has not been selected' by the administration in Washington, so far as known, and it was said that Mr. Root himself was not being consulted in the designation of others. The question whether any ‘socialists here have violated a federal law by sending to Russia reports or allega- tions tending to discredit Mr, Root in the eyes of social demacrats and thus “defeat the measures of the govern- ment of the United States,” in the words of Section 5 of the Criminal Code, was much discussad yesterday, but -no socialists or others could be found who would admit that they had sent messages. They did not con- ceal their hostility toward Mr. Root, and several socialists intimated that the only reason they had not sent messages to Russian newspapers con- demning him as an enemy of social- ism was because “it would be a waste of cable tolls,” because he was “already only too well known to the Russian socialists.” "Editors of radi- cal socialist papers here freely ad- mitted that they had been attacking Mr. Root since his designation as the head of the commission to Russia and 'that coples of their papers were being malled to Russia regularly. The principal basis of the attacks on him has been the case of the Rus- sian radicals, Rudowitz and Pouren, who fled to this country while Mr. Root was secretary of state, The Rus- sian government sought to have them Teturned, and Mr. Root is being at- tacked on the ground that he favored their extradition.; As a matter of fact, according to the reports of the Rudowitz and Pouren cases published when the two men were fighting extradition in 1909, Mr. Root, who was then secretary of state under President Roosevelt, passed final judgment on whether they should be Teturned to Russis, and determined that neither should be extradited. Previous to making this decision both of them were subjected 0o prolopged trials before United States commissioners, Jan Pouren in New York and Christian Rudowitz in Chicago, and during these trials Presi- dent Roosevelt, Mr. Root, and other government officials were occasionally criticised severely by radicals here for not releasing the men forthwitth. Secretary Root sald that he wished to have all of the evidence as to thé character of the men's alleged offenses before him when he made his final decision. He reapened Pouren's case ofter the first commissianer who heard it had decided that Pouren should be sent back to Russia, and after a petition against extraditien bearing thousands of signatures had been sent to Washington. After the second hearing, at which new evi- dence was introduced, Secretary Root decided that Pouren's only offenses in Russia had been of a political nature —he had taken part in & revolution— and decided not to extradite him. Mr. Root came to the same decision in the case of Rudowitz and liberated him. ——— ENTER THE S8AGACIOUS PIG. Assistant Secretary Newton Condemns Those Who Line Purses on Patriotism ‘Washington, May 3.—Assistant Sec- retary Newton of the treasury issued a statement late yesterday characteris- ing the recent increase in tlie price of American flags as outrageous. “It {s distressing to note how a few opportunists and sagacious pigs are seeking to fatten on the patriotism of the country. Within a very short period after the declaration of war the controlling influences among the flag makers of this country donbjed the prlec on flags. In some instances the price was increased 100 per cent. “Naturally when this country went to war for the maintenance of human liberty and civilisation every patriotic citizen in the country desired to show where he stood by the display of his country’s emblem, but he soon dis- covered that a 100 per cent. penailty had been imposed upon his patriot- ism. “I don't know what can be done about it, but I am going to make an effort. I belleve at this time it is the duty of every American citizen, where he discovers the fingers of the pick- pocket or the snout of the pig enter- ing the pocket of the patriotic publie, to use every legitimate means to ex- pose said pig or. Mekmkot ‘without hesitation or timidif Mr. Newton said he had called the attention of ‘Attorney General Gregory to the situation and asked if some action could be taken. HEAVY DEMAND FOR PAPERS Bridgeport, May 3.—The demand for first citizenship ‘which be- gan about the time fations with Germany were broken econtinues here without sign of slack- ening. The time of the naturalization .office now is engaged for more than |'two months ahead. GREEK ROYALTY AGGIISED Princes Olu!;ed ! With Conniving Agninst National Go - gress Damands Expulsion of King. Paris, May 3.—The congress of Hellenic colonies, representing the most influential Greeks resident in France, England, the United States, and all parts of the world, at a meet- ing in Paris have decided to issue a ; declaration to the powers protecting Greece—France, England, and Russia —that they are convinced King Con- stantine by his unconcealed pro-Ger- man policy is hurrying Greece to cer- tain ruin. The congress places entire |, confldence in the Venizelos govern- ment. The declaration contains grave charges against the Princes of the Greek royal family. It accuses them of visiting London, Paris, Petrograd, .and Berlin for the purpose of intrigu- ing against the national government of Greece, and quotes the words of the heir apparent, Prince George, to his regiment on the eve of the Athenian vespers: “Don’t leave a single French- man alive on Greek sofl’ The n concludes by de- manding the expulsion of King Con- stantine and all his dynasty, afirm- ing that the monarchial system, even if really constitutional, is impossible in Greece. For the future it urges a republic as the only form of govern- ment in conformity with the national traditions of Greece, and requests the protecting powers to recognize the Hellenic republc as soon as it is pro- cleimed by & constituent assembly. WARNING TO “GLOATERS”. Staats-Zeitung Warns Those Who Ma- lclously Rejoice. New York, May 3.—Commenting vesterday afternoon upon the report that federal agents were compiling a list of “gloaters”, {. e., Teuton sympa- thigers, who exhibited satisfaction at reverses suffered by the Allies and the sinking of American ships, the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung said: “It has been already admitted that, indeed, there exists no law under which such ‘gloaters’, those rejoicing maliciously, may be punished. But EVER India Paper of the new what does not exist now ‘Therefore, the warning that as an American, rejoices at the my’s victories—and s takings, who praise Hindenburg he were ‘figt America’s arch they will be interned—the plain enough. 80 in the futwre: laugh, do not even grin; nat your tongue, but also close, \. ° CHURCH SOCIETY The following officers were at the annual meeting of Famlly Circle of 8t. Mary's chi Thomas Cranley; Henry O'Brien; chaplain, Rev. ‘Winters. The circle is plann ‘whist for May 10 in the school: the proceeds to be given m the Crose. 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